Hello,

I’ve long been happily using BibDesk 1.5.6 on non-cutting edge systems such as 
Yosemite. After a recent forced upgrade to High Sierra (same MacBook Pro), the 
system flashed a warning that I better update BibDesk to an “optimized” 
version, which I take to mean compiled for 64-bit.

And indeed my 1.5.6 is slow as molasses, with just about any operation (even 
just switching to it) launching 15 seconds of beachball. No other programs do 
anything like this.  

I went and downloaded 1.7.4 (5123) which is 64-bit but... just as slow. As my 
1.5.6 was, anyway, self-compiled with one line of code changed [1], I went and 
downloaded Xcode and updated to svn head and it compiles just fine, but the 
resulting 1.7.4 (5169) is just as slow. The only other non-standard thing I can 
think of in my setup is an AppleScript [2] in ~/Library/Application 
Support/BibDesk/Scripts; moving it out of the way does not improve the 
situation. My BibDesk file is rather large at 8.5 MB for 11,000+ entries, but 
that never caused problems before High Sierra.

I’m happy to run diagnostics if it can help you diagnose what I’m doing wrong. 
(It seems Sample.app no longer comes with the Xcode download?)

Thanks in advance,
Francois


[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28421183/ 
<https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28421183/>
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28468841/ 
<https://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/mailman/message/28468841/>
 
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